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Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Simple And Delicious - Good Old Sponge Cake

Sometime the best recipes and the tried and tested ones that are handed down through generations.
This is one of those recipes. It is just a simple sponge cake but it is easy to make and always impresses those I serve it to. I like it plain so that how we mostly have it as it is not too sweet but every so often (or when we have guests) I add jam and cream.

Sponge Cake

3 eggs

Pinch of Salt

3/4 Cup of Castor Sugar

1 Cup Plain Flour

1 Tsp Baking Powder

50 g Cooled Melted Butter

Grease and line a 20 cm round spring form tin and heat your oven to 190 degrees,

Beat the eggs and salt then add the sugar and beat until thick and pale. Sift in the flour and baking powder and fold into the egg mixture. When the flour is 90% combined fold in the melted butter until just combined. Pour into your cake tin and bake for 25-30 minutes or until the cake springs back in the middle when touched lightly. Leave in the tin for 10 mins then turn out onto a cooling rack.

Once cool the cake can be cut in half and spread with jam and filled with cream or just eat plain.

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About Me

I am a married 30 something who is keen on living a simple life. At home we focus on eating real unprocessed foods, we use natural remedies when required and try to be as self reliant as possible.
I am a keen cook, fledgling farmer, avid reader, soap maker and enthusiastic gardener.
My husband and I moved from the middle of Brisbane to country Kilcoy so that we could live a simple, uncomplicated life away from the constant pressures of consumerism but have sold up our farm and moved back to the suburbs as we plan our move to New Zealand in 2016. We have already purchased a property there which we are slowly getting set up. We would like to be parents one day and believe that our lifestyle and values will give any children a healthy balanced life.
We are joined on this adventure by our 5 year old dog Jessie and look forward to having chickens and other farm animals again in the near future.